Toilet paper pack



W. FAIRCHILD May 8, 1934.

TOILET PAPER PACK Filed May 31, 1930 \N w n% INVENTOR Lj-ge F z I BY 7 Bid/w 9 l a ATTORNEY Patented May 8, 1934 uuireo STATES PATENT ()FFICE TOILET PAPER PACK of New York Application May 31, 1930, Serial No. 458,691

2 Claims.

This invention relates to toilet paper packs arranged in flat sheets designed to be suspended vertically by means of a metallic pin.

With packs of this type, it is difficult for the us r to easily obtain the proper number of sheets of toilet paper. It is necessary to take either the first sheet by pinching it with the fingers and so disengaging it from the pin or to grasp the sheets by the sides or the bottom. When the latter is done, waste may result because the thin sheets of paper adhere closely to one another.

To avoid the inconvenience and improvideht use resulting from th hat sheet type of toilet paper pack, I have found it desirable to crease pairs of the sheets twice horizontally making a horizontal fold of quadruple thickness. These folds are arranged progressively up and down the length of the successive pairs of sheets so that the increased thickness will be distributed evenly. The sheet should be so creased that the fold extends upward towards the connective metal pin, but this is not strictly necessary and a substantial advantage would be attained even if the folds pointed downward. Paper arranged in this form can be easily removed two sheets at a time by grasping the fold of quadruple thickness. The fold has a tendency to open to some extent and this facilitates the removal of the outside two sheets.

Such an arrangement in a pack is particularly useful when a combination of a coarse and a fine sheet is desired and the sheets may be suspended upon a pin, or attached to a base by adhesive or other means.

A reference to the drawing will make clear my expedient for producing an economical and convenient fiat sheet toilet paper pack. An arrangement of horizontal folds is the most advantageous method to produce such a pack of toilet paper sheets, but of course it would be possible to arrange the folds vertically to produce a pack which would be preferable to the fiat sheet type without folds.

Fig. l is a front view of an illustrative example of a toilet paper pack embodying my invention, and Figs. 2 and 3 are side views of the same,

' the pack remains in a substantially fiat form and substantially without hollow spaces in the body thereof. In Fig. 2 is also represented the tendency of fold 11 of the outer two sheets to open. This tendency to open is partly due to the characteristic of toilet paper to resist folding and partly due to the weight of the sheet below the creases.

The length of the sheets determines the number of the progressive folds which it is possible to have upon the successive sheets and it is desirable to have numerous narrow folds closely adjacent through the pack so that there are substantially no hollow spaces and so that the folds tend to support one another when the pack is hung. As shown in the side views in Figs. 2 and 3, the outer two sheets 9 have two creases l5 and 1'7 near the bottom, forming a relatively narrow fold 11. Folds 19, 21, 23, 25, 2'7, 29 are then made in the successive underlying pairs of sheets until the top of the pack is reached whereupon the next underlying pair of sheets are creased with fold 31 at the bottom of the pack. This forms regular step formations through the pack with the result that the additional thickness produced by a fold in one step formation is substantially equalled by a fold in the next formation. The folds are therefore formed closely adjacent in regular lateral lines through the pack and the number of folds upon any one lateral line substantially equals that upon all.

With the fold of the outer two sheets slightly opened as shown, or easily openable, it is natural to use the pack by merely sliding the fingers down on the top sheet until the fold is encountered whereupon the two sheets are torn as a unit from the pin 13. With such an arrangement it is impossible to grasp the sheets by the folds and take more than two sheets without an extra movement; and because the fold unites the two sheets, a single sheet cannot be readily obtained. Where there is an easy method of obtaining the proper amount of paper, there is no necessity or inclination in the user to grip the sheets by the edges and so remove the same in uneconomical quantities.

It is possible to make the two sheets as a unit or to make them of different thicknesses or to have more than two sheets folded together.

Although in my description I have referred to toilet paper in the form of a pack joined by a metallic pin, it is to be understood that this was merely given as a preferred embodiment of my invention and is not to be deemed limitative of the same.

What I claim is:

1. A pack of flat sheet toilet paper adapted for vertical suspension comprising successive layers having a predetermined number of sheets each, narrow folds through each of the layers adapted to join the sheets of the layer into a separately readily detachable unit, said folds being formed in the successive layers near together in staggered relation and in stepped formation so that the increased thickness of the pack due to the folds is substantially evenly distributed and so that the layers of folds tend to support one another through the pack.

2. In a toilet paper pack adapted to be sus- 

